COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Reference number:
B 3476 - 1
Obverse:
B 3476 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0702987dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic document
Subject:
Records
Subject:
Marriage records
Description:
Court testimony (a power of attorney) delivered in 1095/6
Date created:
1095-1096
Language:
Aramaic
Language:
Hebrew
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
32 mm
Item width:
87 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Interrelation fragments:
Probably join between B 3475 and B 3476
Notes:
3 lines. The writer of this document appoints the bearer of the document as an agent to marry a woman on his behalf. Lines 1-2 correspond to the words in Rav Hai's exemplar, which are printed in Haggai's Hebrew translation of R. Solomon ben Nathan's of Sijillmassa's siddur (1995), p. 188.25-6.
Transcription:
Discovery site:
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Moses Gaster
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Access rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
B03476-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-02-07
Date: added:
2007-05
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Genizah
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